Thursday, 1 August 2013

Our earthquake experiences

One of our quadblogging buddies, Alice, recently asked Room 15 who wanted to know how Room 15 are feeling after all the Earthquakes in Wellington.

Over the school holidays Wellington experienced hundreds of earthquakes. The largest earthquake was a 6.4 magnitude quake that happened just after 5 last Sunday.

I live on the fifth floor of an apartment near Te Papa so the shaking was pretty intense. All the cups fell off the shelf onto to the floor and broke which was very scary. The next day, Wellington was a ghost town as many businesses were shut.

Since the big earthquake there have been over 1,000 earthquakes. Most of them are too small to feel but there have been a few good shakes.

Hi StephanieWhen the 6.4 earthquake hit I went under a door way because there was no table to go under. I felt most of the earthquakes at night and early in the mornings. Nobody in my family was injured, but my cousins house now has small cracks in the roof.

Hi Stephanie I was on the computer and my dad was out my brother and dog were in the room.The earthquake hit and I first screamed for my brother. Then went under the dinning table and then my brother came under and my dog kept going in and out of the table.My family was not effected by any earthquakes but our living room is under construction our roof is broken so it is very dangerous.What did you do when the earthquake hit Stephanie?From Grace

Talking about the Earthquake. I went out shopping at Pak'nsave to get some groceries.Then suddenly I felt a shake heaps of people dropped there things and ran out but I couldn't because I was already at the counter When I got back home luckily there was no damage! my brothers told me what happened then my aunty rang up and asked us if we were OK. And that's all.